Suggest anthology themes

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

What kind of anthology would you like to see?

I've mentioned before that there ought to be a "Kobayashi Maru" themed anthology - how each character beat it. Don't limit it to the KM simulation as is, either - surely there are variations on the theme.

How about a poetry book? Musings by Data (of course) and other lesser known Trek characters.

 

[Markonian]

Lots of characters beating an Academy test is hard to make varied enough to keep interesting.
For other tests, Jara Rydek was top three in crushing the Torvallin Test.

 

[mastadge]

I'd like to see a book where characters we haven't seen interact get to interact. What would a conversation between Eddington and Ro look like? What if O'Brien and Kim had a group therapy session for sole survivors from an alternate universe/timeline? Did young Tuvok ever meet old T'Pol?

I think the Kobayashi Maru idea works. Not everyone would win, of course, but just organized around the theme of how various characters react to unwinnable situations.

I think a collection emphasizing non-violence and really cool new life and new civilizations would be cool

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I'd like to see a book where characters we haven't seen interact get to interact.

You'd like this then: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/microtreks-on-twitter.313923/

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

I would love a Lives of Tal book- similar to the Lives of Dax.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Perhaps "first mission" stories of random minor characters getting their feet wet (figuratively).

 

[I am not Herbert]

I've mentioned before that there ought to be a "Kobayashi Maru" themed anthology - how each character beat it. Don't limit it to the KM simulation as is, either - surely there are variations on the theme.

Julia Ecklar's "Kobayashi Maru" is this, roughly speaking

 

[F. King Daniel]

An anthology of guest captains visiting known and new ships. Jellico, etc.

Really though, I want more Captain Zarlo.

 

[somebuddyX]

This is one I thought for live action but maybe it'd work better for books, but the idea was seeing a planet through the different centuries of contact. I was thinking Strange New Worlds, to Lower Decks, to Discovery. I was thinking you start off with some planet like Niburu/Mintaka, then jump forward a bit to see them advance a little, then jump hundreds of years finally to their First Contact. Unless this has been done already. I know Invasion! did something a little like this.

This one might be too complicated but short stories where writers do their own canon. If you know of JMS' Star Trek reboot idea it'd be something like that. Or else stories that are fictional in-universe, like someone writes Flotter or Captain Proton, or there's films or holoprograms made about the different crews in-universe but made long after the fact so they get details or characterisation wrong.

 

[mastadge]

This is one I thought for live action but maybe it'd work better for books, but the idea was seeing a planet through the different centuries of contact. I was thinking Strange New Worlds, to Lower Decks, to Discovery. I was thinking you start off with some planet like Niburu/Mintaka, then jump forward a bit to see them advance a little, then jump hundreds of years finally to their First Contact. Unless this has been done already. I know Invasion! did something a little like this.

You might want to check out Mere Anarchy. All TOS but similar concept. It would be cool to do over a longer timeframe too.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/bo...o/Star-Trek-The-Original-Series/9781416594949

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Julia Ecklar's "Kobayashi Maru" is this, roughly speaking

Yes. I've heard of that. But it'd be cool to see what other characters (not TOS) did.

Or maybe how other (as yet unknown) challenging simulation tests were passed.

 

[FredH]

A single starship surveys a single planet for several months — during which a whole lot of stories happen to a whole lot of the crew (most of them not involving the command crew, aside from a couple of framing stories).

 

[mastadge]

A single starship surveys a single planet for several months — during which a whole lot of stories happen to a whole lot of the crew (most of them not involving the command crew, aside from a couple of framing stories).

I can dig it. I'm thinking sort of Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina/Tales from Jabba's Palace -- unrelated but occasionally overlapping stories about people who happen to be at the same place at the same time.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

First contact stories.

 

[somebuddyX]

A single starship surveys a single planet for several months — during which a whole lot of stories happen to a whole lot of the crew (most of them not involving the command crew, aside from a couple of framing stories).

I like this. It might be fun if characters from one story show up in the background of other ones for a bit and you can different perspective on the same events.

 

[Stevil2001]

Would be a good concept for a Titan anthology. The Bernice Summerfield line over at Big Finish often did anthologies where the stories were so tightly linked, it was like reading a novel by a bunch of different people; I really enjoyed those, and it would be neat to see something like that in the Star Trek line. What was the last short story anthology, though? Seven Deadly Sins?

 

[FredH]

A “dour spies” anthology primarily about Starfleet Intelligence and Section 31.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

SCIS investigations.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Around the Gorn... Horn: Stories from the Cestus Professional Baseball Association. It could sell dozens of copies. Dozens!

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

SCIS investigations.

I’m still sorta surprised that there hasn’t been a Star Trek style procedural series commissioned. Like that’s CBS’s BRAND.